John of Hauville
John of Hauville (also known as Johannes de Hauvilla, Joannes de Havillan, Johannes de Altavilla, John of Hauteville, and Jean de Hauteville) was a moralist and satirical poet of the 12th century (flourished about 1184).
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John of Hauville
- Born
- 1150 · Hauville.
- Died
- 1199
- Nationality
- Kingdom of France
- Occupation
- poet · teacher
- Fields
- morality · didactic method · Latin medieval poetry
- Known for
- Architrenius
- Languages
- medieval Latin · Old French · Latin
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John of Hauville (also known as Johannes de Hauvilla, Joannes de Havillan, Johannes de Altavilla, John of Hauteville, and Jean de Hauteville) was a moralist and satirical poet of the 12th century (flourished about 1184).
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John of Hauville (1150–1199) was a poet and teacher and a national of the Kingdom of France. The poet was born in Hauville. John of Hauville was active in didactic method, Latin medieval poetry and morality.
Works include Architrenius. Languages used include Latin, medieval Latin and Old French.
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Little is known of his life, but he was probably French. His sole attributable work is Architrenius (The Prince of Lamentations), a Latin poem in eight cantos. The poem was written in imitation of classical Latin poets, sometimes borrowing whole verses from chosen authors. He dedicated his work to Walter de Coutances, just after Walter had become Archbishop of Rouen (1184). Of John of Hauville's later life nothing is known, except that his pupil, Gervase of Melkley, wrote of him in the past tense in his Ars poetica, written around 1210: John of Hauville was therefore probably dead by then. Architrenius was a great success and was frequently copied and commented on before its first printing in 1517, at Paris, by Jodocus Badius Ascencius.
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1150
John of Hauville born at Hauville.
1199
John of Hauville died.
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- Johannes de Hauvilla, Architrenius, ed. Paul Gerhard Schmidt (Munich, 1974).
- Herbermann, Charles; Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), Volume 8. Robert Appleton Company - This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: John of Hauteville by Paul Lejay.
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The authorities additionally record the headings Jean de Hauville, Johannes de Hauvilla, Johannes de Altavilla, John of Hauteville and Jean de Hauteville. His recorded languages were medieval Latin, Old French and Latin.
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